New paper on data as a driver of automation and growth: nber.org/papers/w35320

One of my favorite lines from the Nicomachean Ethics goes ‘for the things we need to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them’. The world is complex and messy… ‘men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre’. How did AI systems become taxi drivers? How will they become office workers?

One view is that they’ll gain those skills by training on high quality data. But where will that data come from? What kinds of data will the economy accumulate? How quickly? Who gains and who loses? And if we train AI systems on tons of data so it becomes superhuman at every job, what will be left for us to do?

Simple macro model with three ingredients:

(1) data is task-specific: coding data is not the same as self-driving data; different tasks might also be differentially verifiable so accumulating data is harder/easier

(2) data accumulates endogenously: if the economy finds it worthwhile to do lots of coding we get lots of coding data

(3) data exhibits spillovers: data on one task might augment the productivity of another e.g., via transfer learning or via overlapping primitive skills (pic: some spillover patterns)

First, the long run: do we get full automation?

- Without spillovers: cross-task complementarity must be large enough. Why? Tasks are complements => market finds it worthwhile to produce things we’re bad at => generates data on those bottlenecks => more automation. Unintuitive implications for wages: complementarity means within each slice of time wages are higher than if tasks were substitutes; but across time the market produces the right kinds of data quickly enough to automate labor => long-run wages stagnate!

- With spillovers, automation can be contagious propagating both through prices (general eqm.) and through links (local spillovers)

1/ Summer vacations in Crimea are definitely off, in the face of constant Ukrainian drone attacks and worsening fuel shortages across the peninsula. The Crimean economy is said to be in deep trouble, with factories and amenities closing, and workers being laid off en masse. ⬇️

2/ 'Your News' laments:

"Comrades from Crimea report: the resort season on the peninsula has been almost completely cancelled.

Fuel is hard to come by, or not available at all."

3/ "Destroyed factories and oil depots are not resuming operations, but simply disappearing from the economic map along with their workers.

Hundreds of workers are being sent on unpaid leave or simply laid off due to a lack of jobs.

When the Zulu People of South Africa 🇿🇦 defeated the British 🇬🇧

—A THREAD—

In 1879, the British army invaded the independent & previously friendly Zulu kingdom, which had been founded by the formidable Nguni warrior Shaka Zulu in 1818.

Shaka had been the first proper king in South Africa, in that he managed to unite almost 800 Eastern Nguni–Bantu clans under his rule, displacing the rest.

He was also the first to establish a proper army, which he divided into regiments called impis armed with assegais and iklwas – the former a traditional long-poled spear to use from a distance, the latter a remodelled short-poled version which was lethal in hand-to-hand combat.

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.@TheLancet is supposed to be a medical journal.
Instead, it once again gave space to a political campaign calling for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association.

The absurdity lies not only in platforming such a cause, but in who’s behind the campaign. 🧵>>

The campaign is led by the People’s Health Movement (PHM), together with Artsen voor Gaza and the Health Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

PHM is led by Aziz Rhali, appointed Global Coordinator in March 2026.

In 2015, Rhali eulogized Samir Kuntar as “the pride of the martyrs” and a “leader and comrade.”

Samir Kuntar murdered an Israeli family, including a four-year-old girl, was a Hezbollah operative, and designated by the U.S. as a global terrorist.

Do you agree that every life is worth protecting? If so, this thread will be a very important read... 🧵/1

A dangerous bill to legalise assisted suicide has just been reintroduced to Parliament.

It’s called the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and is an identical copy of the previous bill that passed the Commons but failed in the House of Lords because of major problems. /2

❓ What Would the Bill Actually Do?

- Allow adults with a terminal illness (expected to die within 6 months) to get medical help to end their life.
- Supporters call it “compassion and choice”.
- But professional medical bodies warn it puts vulnerable people at risk. /3

No matter how much exercise you do, you won't burn fat if you don't improve your diet.

Start by eating these 8 foods daily:

1. Plenty of boiled potato

Boiled potatoes are the most satiating food ever tested.

They are rich in resistant starch, which feeds the beneficial gut bacteria and improves the insulin response.

They facilitate fat burning.

2. Eggs

High protein content.

Proteins:
• Produce satiety
• Develop muscle
• Burn more calories during digestion

They help reduce total calorie intake without feeling heaviness

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Claude can now build your entire mobile app from a screenshot like a $350K senior developer at Apple. (for free)

Here are 8 insane Claude prompts replacing your entire mobile development team before they finish estimating the project cost:👇

(Save this 🔖 thread before it blows up.)

1/ HABIT TRACKER APP#ROLE:

Senior React Native developer specializing in behavioral psychology driven mobile applications with clean minimal interfaces and bulletproof streak logic.

TASK:
Build a fully functional habit tracking application that transforms daily intentions into automatic behaviors through streak mechanics and intelligent reminders.

STEPS:
Ask me for my target platform habit categories and visual style preference before writing a single line
Design the core interface with habit cards daily completion toggles and streak counters on the home screen
Build the streak engine tracking current streak longest streak and completion percentage for every habit
Implement smart notifications that adapt timing based on when the user most consistently completes each habit
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RULES:
Every interaction must feel instantaneous with no loading states visible during normal usage
Streak data must persist through app restarts crashes and device switches without loss
Notification logic must respect device quiet hours and user defined focus periods automatically
Visual hierarchy must communicate streak health at a glance without requiring any reading

OUTPUT:
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2/ SCREENSHOT TO APP

ROLE:
Senior Android and iOS developer who transforms any visual reference into production ready applications with pixel perfect fidelity and complete functionality.

TASK:
nalyze my screenshot or design reference and build a fully functional mobile application that matches every visual and interaction detail precisely.

STEPS:
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RULES:
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Flag any ambiguous design decisions immediately rather than making assumptions that require expensive revisions
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OUTPUT:
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‼️Tate case. DIICOT press release:

On 17 June 2026, as part of the ongoing criminal investigation in this case, prosecutors from DIICOT’s Central Structure ordered the extension of the investigation with regard to the offences of human trafficking and money laundering.”

“Evidence gathered during the investigation established that one defendant, a 39-year-old British national, in the first part of 2017, took advantage of the victim’s evident vulnerability (lack of family support, pre-existing psychological trauma

caused by the absence of a father figure, and lack of financial resources) and, by deceiving her regarding his intention to establish a romantic relationship, recruited her for the purpose of sexual exploitation.”

SOXX/NVDA Choppy sideways until 2015, right when value investors starting performing terribly.

The pair makes its really wild move starting October 2022, when markets bottomed. This, AI, is really what saved the market from higher rates.

The pair makes another wild move starting in 2024, bottoming in August 2025.

What happened in August 2025 to make this reverse?

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1/ Ukrainian operatives inside Russia are reportedly acting as forward air controllers, according to a Russian source, using infrared laser beams – invisible to the naked eye – to guide drones to targets. This is likely being done to defeat Russian electronic warfare. ⬇️

2/ 'UAV developer' writes that "in many cities (probably all of them), there are pigs that illuminate targets with infrared lasers. These lasers are invisible to the naked eye, but cameras can see them."

3/ "A drone flying into the area sees these lasers (the beams and "spots" from them) and targets them even in complete darkness.

These lasers have been recorded in Crimea, Cheboksary, and Ryazan. I'm sure they've been seen in other places as well.